Category Archives: Nanaimo
Sweet relief: Nanaimo's air quality improves dramatically
NANAIMO - Take in that fresh air. The province pegged the Nanaimo-Parksville area’s Air Quality Health Index at a level 2, or a low health risk early Thursday morning. The government projected l...
Aug 23, 2018
Parks and wreck: new City registration software crashes on busy opening day
NANAIMO - Many hopeful parks and rec participants were left on the sidelines after the City of Nanaimo’s new online registration system was eventually shut down on opening day. After months of p...
Aug 22, 2018
Hundreds of Nanaimo workers still dogged by flawed Phoenix payroll system
NANAIMO - While progress appears to be made to reverse damage caused by the federal government's disastrous payroll system, the impact is still hitting Nanaimo workers hard. Roughly 150 people attende...
Aug 22, 2018
Nanaimo father identified as driver killed in Malahat crash
NANAIMO - A Nanaimo man is being identified as the driver killed in a crash on the Malahat Highway. West Shore RCMP said a man in his mid-30s was pronounced dead at the scene when a southbound sewage ...
Aug 22, 2018
'He got snowed on this:' Protesters rally in Nanaimo against Trudeau and Trans Mountain
NANAIMO - Chants of "Trans Mountain will never be built" and "We believe we will win" drowned out any work being done in Nanaimo at a federal ministers cabinet retreat. Hundreds of activists and prote...
Aug 22, 2018
Wildfire smoke, affordable housing, Trans Mountain loom over Nanaimo cabinet retreat
NANAIMO - Tough conversations will happen over the next few days in Nanaimo under ominously smoky skies. In a press conference Wednesday morning at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Premier John...
Aug 22, 2018
Longtime Island Health, VIU board chair Don Hubbard to run for mayor
NANAIMO - Don Hubbard elected to spend most of the last 60 years helping his community behind the scenes. Now he’s taking a step into the spotlight. Hubbard announced his intention to run for ma...
May 03, 2018
'It's getting much worse:' survey shows Nanaimo's homeless population surging
NANAIMO - The homeless population in Nanaimo nearly doubled over the last two years, a recent survey showed. Data supplied to NanaimoNewsNOW by Andrew Thornton, point-in-time homeless count coordinato...
May 03, 2018
Vacant Nanaimo restaurant gutted after overnight fire
NANAIMO - A Nanaimo restaurant which sat vacant for several years is now the shell of its former self after a fire tore through inside. Nanaimo Fire Rescue was called to the old Nauticals seafood rest...
Oct 19, 2017
RDN firefighters heading to B.C. interior to battle wildfires
NANAIMO - Firefighters from Vancouver Island are on-route to help out their brothers in Central and Southern B.C. Jon Wilson, manager of emergency services for the Regional District of Nanaimo, said t...
Jul 17, 2017